John Stone sent along another example of pareidolia. He says it’s Christ on a crotch, and that he’s going to clean up on the t-shirts and licensing…but I’m pretty sure he’s completely wrong, and he’s targeting the wrong market. Look closely.
It’s definitely a Wookie with a blaster.
Definitely Bigfoot! Proof at last!
Yup, I’m down with the wookie thing.
Nah, it’s a boreal version of the Shroud of Turin.
Who knew the 2nd coming would be a tree?
Hey! YOU’RE ARGUING WITH ME.
How can it be bigfoot or the shroud of Turin? It’s got a blaster.
Bigfoot? Somebody’d better call Dr. Meldrum.
Sorry PZ. I just wanted to present both sides of the issue.
I can’t help but slip into utter disillusionment over the fact that people can think that Jesus intervenes in worldy affairs to present his likeness in drywall following a devastating hurricane that he couldn’t be bothered to stop.
Really, that’s pretty messed up.
That, friends, is a mermaid. And a pretty well-endowed one, too.
(I was referring to the tail fin.)
Don’t wookies carry like crossbow type things?
ACK! I am a geek.
It looks more like Divine on the movie poster for Pink Flamingos.
Complete with gun.
It’s the space shuttle blasting off.
Looks to me like a phallus with a swollen glans.
Bah!! You are all wrong. Its Merlin. He was sealed in a tree remember.. The whole cave version was made up by evil anti-Merlin heretics.
How can it be bigfoot or the shroud of Turin? It’s got a blaster.
The astonishing technology of the Bigfoot Civilization (like blasters, pyramid building spaceships, and the Loch Ness Monster) far outstrips our paltry scientific advances.
Plucky, it’s called a “bowcaster”. I think I outrank you, geekwise.
I agree: Wookie with a blaster (who said they HAVE to carry a bowcaster?)
wookie – just ’cause Chewbacca used a bowcaster (jeez! you ARE a nerd, The Brummell) doesn’t mean EVERY wookie uses one. That’s just stereotyping!
You’ve uncovered my secret anti-wookie stereotyping. I am so ashamed…
Well, I’ve heard the expression “Christ on a crutch” before, but “Christ in a crotch” is a new one.
I doubt it will catch on.
The face of Mary is clearly visible on its left shoulder. It’s Chewbacca with a Mary-shoulder.
Wait – we don’t know what Mary looked like.
What, Zeno, you’ve never heard a woman in the throes of passion cry out “Oh, God” before? What do you think she’s talking about? It’s a good name, beats “Floyd” anytime.
Perhaps because I’m an oversexed grad student, but I definitely don’t see Jesus or a wookie.
I don’t want to argue with you, PZ, but that’s definitely a leftover from a production of Hamlet — for sure it’s Hamlet’s father’s ghost. The figure is wearing a crown, has its hands crossed over its chest like a corpse, and has no feet. QED. *grin*
Has anyone sent this yet to FARK to be photoshopped?
Christ on a Crotch would be a lovely theme.
true nerds know that it’s spelled Wookiee. *ahem*
I got yer Christ on a crotch riiiight here.
You guys are on crack, allayez.
It’s obviously one of the Tnuctipun with a bunch of helium balloons.
Heh, Chris… you sure it’s not just a ptavv with a disintegration beam?
*pushes the button and turns on the Slaver stasis field*
Oops, I did it again!
Oh, I get it! A mirror image of the pattern continues underground. It’s a playing card. The King of Spades, I believe. A bit elongated in the picture, but from a bird’s-eye perspective it would look in proper proportion.
Maybe he should start looking carefully at the other trees along that street. Could be a winning “hand” in some state lottery! Or crows engaging in cartomancy…
I can’t believe there’s a wikipedia article about wookie(e)s…
I’m gonna cast another vote for “phallus”-synonym here.
“Christ on a crotch?” Hardly. Now, “Christ’s crotch” might at least fit the visual evidence…
And a tree is the perfect place for that sort of apparition; he was a carpenter after all.
Damn. I just knew my virginity would eventually cause me trouble.
It´s definitely not Christ. I´ve scientifically checked this image with every existing photograph of our Lord and they just don´t match up. Ditto with the virgin.
The “face” is pure Creature from the Black Lagoon.
However, what appear to be mammaries must then be something else, because no way was the Creature a mammal (scales, gills).
Folded arms, with elbows prominent?
It does appear to be praying. . . .
Lastly, I ABSOLUTELY SAW a perfect image of the FSM the other night in my, uh, spaghetti. Proof positive of the validity of that faith.
(I ate it.)
“Perhaps because I’m an oversexed grad student, but I definitely don’t see Jesus or a wookie.”
How on earth can anyone be an oversexed grad student? I never had any time…
It’s CLEARLY a wookie! And if anyone diagrees with me I’ll have the Holy Tree Crotch Wookie smite them!
OK, it’s not quite the same thing, but if we’re going to have pictures of trees whose shape suggests something else then I just have to include this: Packing Wood.
Hehe…the phrase “Christ on a crotch” is just darn funny.
I vote Wookiee, too. He looks like he needs to go to the bathroom really badly, though.
I can see the whole wookiee thing, but I still think its proof that trees have a penis.
I thought mermaid too, for some reason.
I see a tree sporting a woody.
http://www.scienceblogs.com/pharyngula
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